1897 Jewish population: 3,801. Birthplace of Rabbi Yitzak Halevi Segal andJehiel ben Solomon Heilprin (ca. 1660-ca. 1746) who was a Lithuanian rabbi, kabalist, and chronicler and a descendant of Solomon Luria. He was rabbi of Glusk in Minsk kahal until 1711 when he was called to the rabbinate of Minsk and officiated also as head of the yeshivah until his death.

In early August 1941, a ghetto was established on the open space near the airfield in the southeastern part of Bobruisk. Jews from Starye Dorogi, Slutsk, Krichev, and Glusk were brought there. The majority were murdered in two large operations carried out in September and November 1941. [February 2010]